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Say hi to Charlie Morscheck! Charlie is a policy officer in the Australian Government Department of Health and Aged Care, working in the Newborn Bloodspot Screening section. Charlie also has experience in private sector consulting with a focus on healthcare. ⭐️ Charlie is a table mentor at our upcoming Canberra Career Transitions breakfast. 🤩 This event is a wonderful opportunity to connect with inspiring peeps like Charlie who have explored diverse and rewarding career paths in our sector. You’ll also hear from our guest speaker, Jo Porter, MAPP, who will share valuable tips and frameworks for navigating your career. Registrations close tomorrow night! Join us, and please help spread the word 🙏👉https://lnkd.in/gFeGZKbq #FWCareerTransitions

We want to take this opportunity to acknowledge the Kolling Institute, one of our longstanding Partner Organisations. Thank you for working with us to create a health and medical research ecosystem where women thrive ✨ So far, 23 staff and students from the Kolling Institute have participated in our cross-organisational mentoring program, including the Institute’s Academic Director, Prof. James M Elliott, who served as a Mentor in 2022—now that’s what we call leadership! This program supports mid-career women in their career journeys and helps leaders build their inclusive leadership skills. You can learn more about the Kolling Institute and their fabulous team here 👉 https://lnkd.in/g5NnThRy We are incredibly grateful to (and inspired by!) our alliance of Partner Organisations. Your support and investment enable more women and other marginalised groups in our sector to connect, collaborate and learn from one another. You can find out more and join us here 👉 https://lnkd.in/gB5MThd7 #WomenInSTEMM #WomenInResearch #WomenInHealth #partner

Have a read - key reflections from two of our recipients of the University of Sydney PERIscope Commercialisation Award have been shared in this month's Franklin Women newletter. Dr Aeryne Lee from our School of Chemical and Biomedical Engineering and Athiya A., final year PhD candidate, School of Aerospace, Mechanical and Mechatronic Engineering share their experience as program participants in the 2024 cohort of the PERIscope Commercialisation Award. "For us, this experience transformed our outlook on what we considered important research. We now value our contributions, not just by papers and citations, but focusing on delivering innovations with real world potential." #PERIscope #researcherentrepreneur #impact Franklin Women Karla P. Rupal Ismin Jane Cockburn Sina Naficy Agisilaos Kourmatzis

An exciting opportunity to register your interest to be the next Chief Scientist of Western Australia! WA scientists - please consider registering and share widely within your networks!

Say hi to Miranda Menaspà! Miranda began her career as a Sports Physiotherapist and is now the National Performance Support Director at the Australian Institute Of Sport, where she leads a team focused on creating a collaborative network of performance support practitioners ⭐️ Miranda is a table mentor at our upcoming Canberra Career Transitions breakfast. 🤩 This event is a wonderful opportunity to connect with inspiring peeps like Miranda who have explored diverse and rewarding career paths in our sector. You’ll also hear from our guest speaker, Jo Porter, MAPP, who will share valuable tips and frameworks for navigating your career. Join us, and please help spread the word 🙏👉https://lnkd.in/gFeGZKbq #FWCareerTransitions #WomenInSTEMM #Canberra

'Growth happens when you are outside of your comfort zone'. This is the quote that came flashing before my eyes when I was about to go up on stage to interview University of Sydney Vice-Chancellor and President, Prof Mark Scott, for the Franklin Women #Mentoring Program Alumni event. It was the most nervous I had been in a while, but as it turned out, I had a wonderful time talking to Mark about his own leadership journey, where he goes for mentorship and why diversity and inclusion are key leadership capabilities of the future. Going outside of your comfort zone is scary. But once you've done it, you create an evidence point to call upon next time you are about to do something scary as a reminder that you can do it and will be AOK 🚀👉 https://lnkd.in/g-JxVksS #FranklinWomen #InConversation #LeadershipForGood #WomenInSTEMM

Oh, what a morning. So much inspiration, conversation and genuine connection at our Career Transitions breakfast in Sydney this week, where we learnt not only from our fantastic panel of speakers and table mentors but from each other too. Very grateful to Dr Liz Lennon for leading the discussion on navigating career moves across the health and medical research ecosystem and to these brilliant #WomenInSTEMM for being so generous with their insights and experiences. 🌟Tricia Cummins 🌟Martie De Villiers 🌟Dr Belinda Di Bartolo 🌟Dr Helen Goldsmith RN PhD 🌟Associate Professor Anita Heywood 🌟Dr Sophia Moscovis PhD, GAICD 🌟Dr Sharon Ponniah PhD 🌟Dr Elise Putt  🌟Charmaine Tam Such honest conversations about steering our careers in a direction that truly feels right for us—we are so excited about the many opportunities and pathways in our sector! Huge thank you to everyone who joined us and brought so much buzz and energy to the room. The best part is that we get to do it all over again with our ACT community on November 14. There’s still time to register! 👉 https://lnkd.in/gFeGZKbq 📸 by Cain Cooper #FWCareerTransitions #FranklinWomen #WomenInHealth #WomenInResearch #ECRs #community #connection

🎉 The FW October newsletter is here with a recap of the month that was in the health and medical research ecosystem. Plenty of #WomenInSTEMM stories for you to get stuck into too, including: ⭐ Career Profile with Dr. Gemma Doleman, Adjunct Research Fellow at Edith Cowan University and Sir Charles Gairdner and Osborne Park Health Care Group in WA. Gemma discusses her research on the retention, wellbeing and job satisfaction of nursing and midwifery professionals, along with her passion for lifelong learning. ⭐Dr. Aeryne Lee, a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Sydney and Athiya A. a final-year PhD candidate in Aerospace, Mechanical and Mechatronic Engineering, write about their experiences taking part in the #PERIscipe Commercialisation Award. ⭐ We also share key takeaways from our Members Connect Virtual meetup with Prof. Francine Marques earlier this month. ⭐ And it’s Diwali tonight! So our newsletter curator Amy Vassallo shares her favourite Diwali-inspired links to celebrate the festival of lights. Check your inbox to get caught up on all of this and lots more 👉 https://lnkd.in/gbXbhShu #WomenInHealth #WomenInResearch #newsletter #community #ECRs #commercialisation #FWMembersConnect | Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital | Sydney Knowledge Hub

Fantastic opportunity for First Nations STEMM researchers to participate in the Australian Science Media Centre's 2025 Indigenous Media Mentoring Program. The program provides 2 days of hands-on interview practice and media training from Indigenous scientists and journalists at the SBS/NITV studios in Sydney next April 🙌 Deadline to apply is December 1 👉 https://lnkd.in/gNEvGDEx Special Broadcasting Service (SBS) Australia | National Indigenous Television, NITV